A new comedy spoof on the Ten Commandments portrays Jesus Christ deflowering a sexy virgin, and is raising some eyebrows in the Christian community.
“The Ten,” rated R for pervasive strong, crude sexual content, language and some drug material, stars Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder, Gretchen Mol and Liev Schreiber among others.
The movie which opens Friday features ten separate stories, each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments from the Holy Bible.
“If you’ve ever stopped yourself from murdering someone, then you yourself have been following the Ten Commandments without even knowing it,” clowns director David Wain on the film’s website.
One storyline has Gretchen Mol playing a virtuous librarian “who has a sexual awakening in Mexico with a swarthy local” who is really Jesus, according to Wain.
He says other tales include:
A guy (Adam Brody) who becomes an accidental hero after falling out of a plane
A doctor (Ken Marino) who kills his patients “as a goof”
A police detective (Liev Schreiber) who covets his neighbor’s Cat Scan machine
A mother (Kerri Kenney-Silver) who enlists an Arnold Schwarzenneger impersonator (Oliver Platt) to be a father figure to her children
A prisoner (Rob Corddry) who covets his fellow inmate’s “wife”
A woman (Winona Ryder) who falls in love with, and then steals a ventriloquist’s puppet
A Rhinoceros who learns the pitfalls of gossip
A husband (A. D. Miles) who skips church with his family to get naked with his friends and listen to Roberta Flack
A man (Paul Rudd) presenting all of these stories to the audience, while struggling with his own moral dilemma: having to choose between his beautiful wife (Famke Janssen) and his also beautiful but somewhat younger mistress (Jessica Alba).